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luckytrim

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JEOPARDY- US States
1. ($200)- Volunteers will tell you that at 6,643 feet, Clingman's dome is this state's highest point...
2. ($600)- Vidalia onions, some of the world's sweetest, hail from this state...
3. ($1000)- This state was admitted to the Union on Valentine's day 1912...
Double JEOPARDY- Authors
4. ($400)- This Poet was sixty-nine when he won his fourth Pulitzer Prize in 1943...
5. ($1200)- His "Hike and the Aeroplane" of 1912 didn't exactly put him on the Main Street of success...
6. ($2000)- The history of Israel is the subject of this Author's 1965 book, "The Source"...
final JEOPARDY- the Elements
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7. The Atomic Clock introduced in 1955, as well as the more recent NIST-F-1 model, use atoms of this element, symbol Cs...
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1. what is Tennessee?
2. what is Georgia?
3. what is Arizona?
4. who is Robert Frost
5. who is Sinclair Lewis?
6. who is James Michener?
7. what is cesium?
 
OK, I know very little trivia about US geography, bombed out there. Got all the rest, but nearly sprained my brain with Sinclair Lewis. I could only dredge the Sinclair out of my brain not the Lewis, but I'm claiming points anyway. And the Source is the only Michener I've ever managed to finish. Ironically, I read it when on a dig in Italy. Ah memories. That is an AMAZING book.
 
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